PRAYER REQUESTS
Feel free to email your prayer requests or that of your loved ones to us . A specific request will help us to pray more efficiently targeting that particular area in your life. For example you may ask us to pray with you without revealing the actual problem. However if you can identify your problem as say an erring child or a pain in the body or a disease or as emotional stress or pain , financial duress , or an addiction etc it will help us to focus on that particular issue and pray. Otherwise it will be a general prayer. Your details will be kept confidential.
Please email us when your prayer is answered and if you want you can share your testimony with us for the glory of God. Letting us know that your prayer is answered also helps us to stop praying for that particular need and allows us to pray for others. A friend of ours was looking for a good believing wife and asked us to pray. We prayed for three years and stopped when God told us to. All this while our friend had not contacted us. Shortly after we met him beaming from side to side with his wife and an adorable child. He said he was happy that God had blessed him and given him a good wife. In the rush of things he had forgotten to inform us about the prayer being answered. Unlike most others we will be praying for each person who emails us as an individual and not in general way. Some people club all the prayer requests together and pray for them as a whole. My wife Nancy and I not only spend hours in prayer every day but we also fast and pray as the need arises and as the Holy Spirit leads us.
PRAYER is talking or making an appeal to God the father through His Son Jesus Christ. Gospel of John 14:6,13 ,14/John15 :7. As every normal parent likes to hear the sound of their children's chatter so does God like us to talk to Him. God says come and reason with me. He says state your case . Let us contend together. God wants us to communicate with Him. ISAIAH 1 : 18 / The most effective prayers are those that are audible. Human logic says when God knows what is our thoughts then why should we speak audibly to God ? God's ways are different from those of Man. ISAIAH 55 : 8 & 9. When we do things God's way it is always the most effective. PROVERBS 18 : 21
PRAYING ON YOUR BEHALF OR ON THE BEHALF OF OTHERS TO GOD IS CALLED INTERCESSION. The oxford dictionary defines this word as the act of interceding through prayer or to intervene on behalf of another. The bible defines intercession in as STANDING IN THE BREACH which means to bear the brunt of an attack or to stand in the gap. This meaning can be properly understood by reading PSALM 106 : 21-23 So, when you are attacked by sorrow, disease, financial loss , family or personal crisis , addiction etc and you send us a request to pray for you and your loved ones we will intercede for you. GOD IS LOOKING FOR INTERCESSORS . ISAIAH 59 : 16 - Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor , therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness , it sustained Him. ISAIAH 63 : 5 - God looked and there was no one to help. He wondered that there was no one to uphold ……………….. My wife Nancy and I along with other prayer warriors stand in the gap when we pray for people or countries / places or events. There is power in agreeing with another on a prayer point. MATHEW 18 : 19 - Jesus says that if two of his disciples agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it shall be done to them by His Father in heaven.
For a prayer to be answered by God sometimes requires the person who has sent in the request to reflect on their own life and see if they are walking in accordance to God , in ways pleasing to God. If the person is doing things displeasing to God then his or her prayers may never be answered. King David was described by God as a man after Gods own heart. He had a child through an adulterous relationship with Bathsheba. He also plotted and had Bathsheba's husband Uriah killed. God does not approve of these acts by David and the child became sick. King David fasted and prayed interceding to God for the restoration of his precious baby but the child eventually died. 2 SAMUEL 11 & 12 . What happened ? We cannot expect God to turn a blind eye to acts that we commit which is displeasing to God . If we change our existing ways and please God He will answer our prayers. When you email us we may email you back for certain clarifications and may send you instructions on how you can make your prayer more effective. As bible teachers it is our duty to instruct you on ways to make your prayers more effective and your life pleasing to God . 2 CHRONICLES 15 : 1to 3 and 2 CHRONICLES 17 : 9 & 10